ESXi 6.5 upgrade failed

Today i was trying to upgrade our esxi 6.0 (running on DELL poweredge) to esxi 6.5. Upgrade did not start and throwing conflicts vib error.


DRS Deep Dive


In this article, we are going to see DRS in detail. What is DRS and how it works in backend, what are the options we have in DRS settings.

HA Deep Dive - Part 4

In Previous posts, we have seen HA monitoring for ESXi hosts and mechanism used for monitoring.
Here are links for previous articles,

HA Deep Dive - Part 3


In Previous Post, we have seen admission control policies. In this chapter, we are going to see how the mechanism works and calculations are being done by HA.

HA Deep Dive - Part 2

     In my Previous post, we have seen HA and its components. In this chapter, we are going to see Admission control and policies.

HA Deep Dive - Part 1


      In this chapter, we are going to discuss about vsphere HA and its components. HA features and Mechanism varies on different vsphere version. In this article mostly we talk about vsphere 6.0 features and Mechanism.

VROPS remote collector installation

In my previous post, we have seen how to install vrops 6.6. Here we are going to see how to install remote collector and add vcenter to it.

VROPS 6.6 installation

Hey Folks, Today we gonna see how to install VROPS 6.6. Before we proceed further check vmware interoperability guide to make sure your vcenter is on supported version.

SRM custom installation

In this post we are going to see how to do custom SRM setup. This is mostly needed when you are trying to setup Shared recovery model. Here am going to share step by step guide for the same.

VCSA showing unknown command (VCSA file system full)

In this post we are going to see, how to fix unknown command error in VCSA appliance. When you access vcsa through ssh, after enabling shell you are not able to run any command. It is throwing unknown command. This happened with me twice and here is a fix.

Step by step guide to deploy VCSA 6.5

In this post, we are going to see how to install VCSA 6.5. Please go through the vmware release notes to make sure you are aware of known issues with this version.